Learning Mandarin, A Guide Every Step of the Way

Fluenz Mandarin will guide you realistically and step by step through a Mandarin path specifically designed for English-speakers. If there is a language where the Rosetta Stones and Duolingos of the world won’t be of much help, it is Mandarin Chinese; just imagine as an English-speaker trying to learn Mandarin with explanations in Mandarin or without any kind of explanation. Fluenz offers video tutorials in English tied-in to comprehensive workouts where you practice what’s learned every step of the way. This is why the Navy’s Special Warfare Command

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Three reasons Fluenz Mandarin is unique.

1. A Tutor at Every Step

Fluenz Mandarin is the only major program that guides learners with clear video explanations of Mandarin in English tied to a comprehensive workout platform,..every step of the way. There is simply no match to Yi Wei’s common sense explanations and strategies on sentence construction, word order, tones and pronunciation, as well as vocab. Those serious about learning Mandarin Chinese, from basic to advanced conversations, won’t find a better option than critically acclaimed Fluenz Mandarin.

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2. The Best Option

While subscribing to blogger’s PDFs, listening to podcasts and gathering random resources is certainly helpful,..they’re not by themselves realistic options to reach basic or intermediate conversational abilities in Mandarin Chinese. For a language as tough as Mandarin, only a comprehensive approach with significant investment behind it will deliver real results. Our serious approach 1) explains workings of Mandarin Chinese in over 100 videos, 2) offers a realistic path for English-speakers to reach verbal fluency and comprehension of Mandarin Chinese, and 3) connects what is learned with specific, targeted practice designed to help learners reach fluency.

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3. Achievable Results

Since 2007 and after several iterations and upgrades, Fluenz Mandarin Chinese remains the premium option to achieve verbal fluency...and to lay the foundation for advanced learners of the language. No other major language learning company can boast its founder started the program by going to China to learn Mandarin and understand what it would take to build the ideal program.

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Getting fluency in Mandarin is about the right balance between learning and practicing, which is why you can go through the whole program, from every video tutorial to every single workout, on every device. Jump on and off your computer, iPhone, Android phone and iPad while continuing to study your Mandarin. We always know where you left off so that you can find your bookmarket no matter which device you go to.

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Mandarin Fluenz

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Master the basics and gain the ability to navigate through a new country or city.

REAL-WORLD SITUATIONS YOU'LL ENGAGE IN:

Greeting and introducing yourself

Talking about countries and nationalities

Going out to eat and for entertainment

Shopping and monetary transactions

Navigating airports, subway and train stations

Communicating with taxi drivers

Making hotel reservations and other travel arrangements

Looking for people and places on the street or inside a building

Telling or asking for your way (directions)

Telling or asking for the time

Planning activities

FOUNDATIONAL TOPICS COVERED:

Writing in Pinyin

Identifying the tones (sounds + marks)

Internalizing basic sentence structure (word order)

Forming basic questions and negations

Using essential possessives and demonstratives

Using other adjectives to describe items and places

Making simple comparisons

Using essential pronouns and quantifiers (introduction to measure words)

Counting up to 999,999 and expressing time

Ordinal numbers

Crucial verbs and adverbs

Other crucial specific concepts in Mandarin (zai, ge …)

Mandarin 1+2 has been designed to prepare you for the most important and common situations you'll face in the Mandarin-speaking world. At the same time, you'll develop a strong foundation in how the language actually works, allowing you to go beyond simple stock phrases to actually building sentences yourself. This is a serious introduction to the language.

We’ll start with only a few key verbs, nouns and pronouns so that you can really focus on two elements that are quite different in Mandarin : the sounds (the tones) and the structure of phrases (word order and uses). The idea is to make sure you start recognizing words, sounds and patterns while memorizing some basic but powerful sentences that you’re going to need in any context.

You’ll see that shortly the concepts will start to make sense. After only a few sessions, you'll already be having meaningful interactions in a restaurant, and soon you'll be shopping, making plans with friends, getting around a city, going out for entertainment, and even making travel arrangements. You’ll also learn how to count and use numbers.

Little by little, we’ll vary the situations and add on some more crucial verbs, nouns and adjectives so that you can express your needs and desires with confidence in most common traveling situations. Further work on locations and times will round out your introduction to the Mandarin language, leaving you well-prepared to dive into your experiences in the Mandarin-speaking world.

Level 1-2

Master the basics and gain the ability to navigate through a new country or city.

REAL-WORLD SITUATIONS YOU'LL ENGAGE IN:

Greeting and introducing yourself

Talking about countries and nationalities

Going out to eat and for entertainment

Shopping and monetary transactions

Navigating airports, subway and train stations

Communicating with taxi drivers

Making hotel reservations and other travel arrangements

Looking for people and places on the street or inside a building

Telling or asking for your way (directions)

Telling or asking for the time

Planning activities

FOUNDATIONAL TOPICS COVERED:

Writing in Pinyin

Identifying the tones (sounds + marks)

Internalizing basic sentence structure (word order)

Forming basic questions and negations

Using essential possessives and demonstratives

Using other adjectives to describe items and places

Making simple comparisons

Using essential pronouns and quantifiers (introduction to measure words)

Counting up to 999,999 and expressing time

Ordinal numbers

Crucial verbs and adverbs

Other crucial specific concepts in Mandarin (zai, ge …)

Mandarin 1+2 has been designed to prepare you for the most important and common situations you'll face in the Mandarin-speaking world. At the same time, you'll develop a strong foundation in how the language actually works, allowing you to go beyond simple stock phrases to actually building sentences yourself. This is a serious introduction to the language.

We’ll start with only a few key verbs, nouns and pronouns so that you can really focus on two elements that are quite different in Mandarin : the sounds (the tones) and the structure of phrases (word order and uses). The idea is to make sure you start recognizing words, sounds and patterns while memorizing some basic but powerful sentences that you’re going to need in any context.

You’ll see that shortly the concepts will start to make sense. After only a few sessions, you'll already be having meaningful interactions in a restaurant, and soon you'll be shopping, making plans with friends, getting around a city, going out for entertainment, and even making travel arrangements. You’ll also learn how to count and use numbers.

Little by little, we’ll vary the situations and add on some more crucial verbs, nouns and adjectives so that you can express your needs and desires with confidence in most common traveling situations. Further work on locations and times will round out your introduction to the Mandarin language, leaving you well-prepared to dive into your experiences in the Mandarin-speaking world.

Level 3

Solidify your foundation and begin to acquire the tools for more serious engagement.

REAL-WORLD SITUATIONS YOU'LL ENGAGE IN:

Making plans with friends or colleagues and telling a simple story

Making more complex orders at restaurants

Buying specific things at different kinds of stores

Discussing origins

Changing money

Visiting a factory and ordering materials

Finding your way inside a building

Looking for an address or a person

Making more complex travel and work arrangements

Going to the pharmacy or doctor’s

Dealing with technology items and tasks

Talking about the weather

Talking about jobs and business

Comparing things at the tailor

Taking different kinds of transport

FOUNDATIONAL TOPICS COVERED:

Main essential measure words

Currencies and Nationalities

How to form the present progressive (action in progress)

How to form the future

How to speak about past events

Forming more complex statements and questions (new question words)

Addressing people formally

Colors

Using main location prepositions

Quantities and sizes

Superlatives

Uses of “de”

Mandarin 3 has been designed to reinforce the basics studied in levels 1+2, like the tones and the numbers, while getting deeper into some crucial elements in the Mandarin phrase, such as the all-important “measure words”, or new ways of building negations. This level will be a challenge too in the sense that it introduces more vocab and more complex structures in order to prepare you for more intermediate studies.

Indeed, you'll continue to build upon the structures learned in Mandarin 1+2, so that your journey through this third level leads to more complex and meaningful interactions in restaurants, travel agencies, stores, and with friends. You'll buy clothing from boutique stores, make personal as well as business reservations and appointments, you'll enjoy local cuisine at restaurants, go to the doctor, and visit factories and buildings with friends…

From new verbs, prepositions and adjectives to how to express new tenses (past and future), this level is perfect to complete your bases and make sure you have a strong foundation and a deep grasp of how Mandarin works. By the time you finish level 3, you’ll be able to identify and reproduce most crucial words and sounds in Mandarin, allowing you to engage in more serious conversations about essential topics and giving you all the tools to communicate during a trip to China, or even to pursue your Mandarin studies if you wish to.

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Comparing Fluenz Mandarin with Rosetta Stone Mandarin

Journal of the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium.

Comparing Fluenz Mandarin with Rosetta Stone Mandarin

Journal of the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium.

Ratings from the journal's evaluation of offline version ofRosetta Stone Portuguese 1, 2, 3 TOTAL and of Fluenz Mandarin 1+2+3

“To use English to teach a foreign tongue? Fluenz says "yes", and trumps Rosetta stone.”

By Deborah Yap AP Business Writer

DIFFERENCES IN APPROACHES: Rosetta Stone believes in fully immersing the student in the language, without using any English to explain phrases. Fluenz believes adults learn best when they can relate the grammar and syntax of a foreign language to the structure of the tongue they already know.

THE VERDICT: Fluenz’s approach is much better. Hearing English while going through Italian words helps with learning and retention.